Dereferencing Uninitialized Pointers

[Steve Strobel]

I am trying to debug a program that has structures containing char pointers (on 
a Motorola Coldfire 5272 processor, using a BDM connection).  Sometimes those 
pointers point to invalid memory addresses, addresses that cause a bus fault 
when dereferenced.  I am unable to print or display those structures because of 
the bus fault;  GDB doesn't continue printing the other stucture members after 
such a fault.  I can display individual members of the structure, but that is 
more work to set up.  I can think of several ways to avoid this problem; there 
may be others as well.  Is there a way to make GDB:

- continue printing the rest of a structure after a bus fault?
- understand that only certain memory regions are valid, such that it 
  won't try to access anything outside of those regions?
- stop automatically dereferencing char pointers?

Thanks for your help,

Steve
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Steve Strobel
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